Cuff-button



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M. BOUQUET.

CUFF BUTTON. No. 366,644. Patented July 19, 1887.

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MAXINE BOUQUET, OF BROOKLYN, NEW" YORK.

CUFF-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,644, dated July 19, 1887.

Application filed April 1, 1887. Serial No. 933,268.

York, have invented a new and useful Im-,

provement in uff-Buttons, of which the'following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of sleevebuttons which aresecured to the end" by means of a spiral, and it is described in the following specificatiomand more specifically pointed out in the claim.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a piece of sheet metal which is cut ready to be bent, so as to form the shank and attaching-plate. Figs. 2 and 3 show, respectively, a bottom and side view of the button completed, the shank and spiral of which are formed from the sheetmetal piece of Fig. 1.

I take a piece of sheet metal and cut or stamp from it a piece ofthe form shown in Fig. 1. The part c is bent upward, so as to form a right angle at or about the point (I. The part from d to c is then bent cdgewise inward, so as to bring the angle at (I about the center of the curve formed by the part b. The partb all the way round to the angle (1 thus forms a spiral, at the center of which the part c, which is to form the stem of the button, projects up ward.

The extension h of thepart b is bent inward slightly and so that it overlaps the part between (1 and e, and lies substantially in contact with it, so that the extension h has to be lifted slightly from thepart of the spiral lying below it in order to'inscrt the part h into the button-hole for the purpose of adjusting the No model.)

button in the cuff. This is clearly shown in Fig. 3. Thccxtremity of the part or stem 0 is soldered or otherwise properly secured to the center of the button-head a,as shown in Fig. 3, and when the button is thus completed it con sists substantially of two partsnamely, the head a and the stem and spiral.

My improved sleeve-button contains many advantages, among which may be mentioned the following: The spiral being made from a piece of sheet metal,comparatively little bend ing is required to form any part excepting turning up the shank. struction is that the metal is in its normal condition and is much more firm and resistant to bending than in a case Where the spiral is formed by bending astraight piece of metal, as, for instance, a wire. Likewise the form into which the spiral is bent makes it firm and easily to be applied, while not likely to catch in other articles of wear and not likely to be accidentally detached.

I claim A cuff-button composed of the head a, the spiral and stem 1) 0, the said spiral and stem being made of one continuous piece of metal cut in spiral form from sheet metal, substantially as described, and the extremity thereof, as h, bent inwardly, so as to overlap and substantially rest upon a portion ofthe spiral ad jacent to the stem, substantially as described.

MAXIME BOUQUET.

The result of this con-- 

